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I own a small business. I speak with small to large business owners from one end of this country to the other. The common theme is that they can't find the people they need to do the work. One of my customers in Nevada specifically stated that they lost business because they couldn't hire the drivers they needed. The job market is as tight as I've ever seen it.

I work at a plant in Mississippi... we are struggling to hire on workers here... when we do get applicants, they can't pass a drug test or background check. We also pay the lowest wages of any plant on the coast. I keep telling the bosses they have to increase our base pay (hasn't gone up in three years), but they won't, and so we'll keep having issues. Not the fault of the labor market.

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Posted by auggie

Opelika, Alabama

Member since Aug 2013

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Posted on 1/16/20 at 3:03 pm to BayBengal9

Here where I live, My Grandfather, and another great carpenter built all of the good houses, back in the late 40s, all the ay to the early 70s. It was serious work. Neither one, were get rich quick kinds of guys. They didn't go to golf courses or country clubs, and they didn't sit in offices, they were out there supervising, and making sure that things were done right.

Then they went home in the afternoons and worked on their fences and barns, and tried to make their cattle herd better. Raised crops and never stopped.

They did eventually get wealthy, they didn't do it the way these slime ball builders want to do it now.
They paid their men a living wage, and worked beside them everyday. They had good men too. They set examples.

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